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n6 William and Mary Quarterly

CARTER GENEALOGY.

By Dr. Jos. L. Miller.
(Continued from page 243.)

Since the publication of the October, 1909, Quarterly, posi-
tive proof as been discovered of the settlement of the Frederick
county Carters in that county from Bucks county, Pa., in 1743;
which, of course, shows that the circumstantial evidence that
seemed to connect James and Joseph Carter, of Frederick, with
James and Joseph Carter, of Lancaster and Stafford, was not
reliable. Prof. H. T. Lou than, of William and Mary, who has
been gathering data of this family in Frederick, will doubtless
publish an account of his Carter ancestry, so nothing further of
them will be given here.

It has been learned positively that Peter Carter, who died in
Fauquier in 1789 at an advanced age, Was the son of Captain
Thomas Carter, Jr., of Lancaster, as was surmised; and that in
addition to the five sons named in the October Quarterly, he had
four others — Thomas, Joseph, and Norris, who settled on Clinch
River, and George, who remained in Fauquier.

Joseph and George were mentioned before as probably the
sons of George Carter, of Buckingham.

On page 102 it was stated that Margaret Chew Carter, daugh-
ter of John and Hannah Chew Carter, of Spotsylvania, was the
wife of Captain John Marshall. She was the wife of Zachariah
Taliaferro, of South Carolina, and had a half sister, Margaret
Carter, who was the wife of Captain Marshall.

The illustrations for the April Quarterly were accidentally
omitted, and will be given here.

J2. John 4 Carter (Daniel, 3 Thomas, 2 ) was twice married,
but had issue only by the first wife, who is thought to have
been a Miss Spencer. He married second, in 1757, Mary, "widow
of Mr. Thomas Pollard." In her will, dated February, 10, 1792,
"Mary Carter, widow of John Carter, dec'd," left all her pro-

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perty to her children, Thomas and James Pollard and Mary Pol-
lard James. The personal estate of "J onn Carter of Corotoman
River Planter" was divided between his wife Mary Carter and
his four children on March 25, 1783. This estate amounted to
£237 6s. 6d, and included six negroes and a good lot of furni-
ture contained in the following rooms : "The hall, the Chamber,
the Red Room, the Upstairs, the kitchen, and the Sellar." He
owned "a great Bible, 2 sermon Books, a Hymn Book and a par-
cel of old books." John Carter had issue:

220. Thomas Carter, died in Culpeper in 181 3. By mistake
it was stated in a former Quarterly that Thomas Carter, uncle
of this Thomas was the one who settled in Culpeper.

221. Spencer Carter, appeared in a list of Westmoreland slave
owners in 1782 as owner of three servants. After his father's
death he purchased the home place from the other heirs, and was
living in Lancaster in 1785 with a wife and five children.

222. Joseph W. Carter, died in Culpeper in 1827, leaving wife
Anne, and is thought no children. This will book is missing.
He was a merchant, and at one time had his nephew, Robert Car-
ter, as a partner. September 19, 1803, Joseph Carter and wife
Anne sold to Philip Slaughter 280 acres. All were of Culpeper.

223. Lucy Carter, married about 1775 Tapscott Oliver, of
Northumberland county. Had three children in 1783.

73. Daniel 4 Carter (Daniel, 3 Thomas, 2 ) inherited the old
home place in Lancaster. His will, probated October 20, 1794,
names wife Rachel and children John, Ambrose, Joseph, and
Betsy.

John and Ambrose removed to the West and were lost sight
of. Joseph married in 1810 Sarah Brent and removed to Ken-
tucky. They had issue: daughters, Sarah Anne, Elizabeth,
Rachel, and Frances, all of whom died in early life of consump-
tion ; and sons, Brent, d. s. p. ; Daniel married Mary Smith and
had issue, — Mary and John, who removed to California after the
Civil War; and Thomas, born in 1825, married Betty Yarborough
in 1847, an d died in 1907 without surviving issue. He was a
lieutenant in the Confederate army, and after the war removed

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to Chicago, where he lost most everything he had in the great
fire in that city, and among other heirlooms the portrait of Maj.
Edward Dale, but fortunately relatives in Kentucky had had
made a copy of this portrait.

79. Rev. Jesse 4 Carter (Dale, 3 Thomas, 2 ) was an Episcopal
clergyman. In 1772 he applied for the parish of Southam in
Cumberland county, and preached there until November, 1773,
when a Mr. Saunders was chosen rector.

Rev. Mr. Carter was living in King and Queen county in
1782, and probably finally settled in Caroline county, as he rep-
resented Drysdale parish, Caroline, in the Episcopal Conventions
of i785-'87 and '89. The destruction of the county records pre-
vents our obtaining any further data of him, or any of the other
branches of the Carter family that seem to have been settled to
Caroline county. The old order books and the marriage register
show that there were quite a number of Carters in the county
from prior to 1746 on. I have been informed that there are sev-
eral old Bibles in the possession of the Carters now living in
Caroline, but none of them seem sufficiently interested to copy
the records from them.

80. Jeduthan 4 Carter (Dale, 3 Thomas, 2 ) removed from Lan-
caster to Cumberland county, and about 1782 from there to Pitt-
sylvania, where fie settled a fine plantation called "Mt. View."
His wife was Sarah, daughter of Jesse Carter of "Oakland."
They had no issue, so by his will, probated November 20, 1820,
he left entire estate to wife for the rest of her life, after which
it was to go to her nephew, Reuben Hopkins, "If he will come
here to live and will give his brother A. F. Hopkins one little
negro." Friend Dr. Thos. Anderson to have three negroes.

81. Augustine 4 Carter (Dale, 3 Thomas, 2 ), born October 22,
1741, made his will October 21, 181 1. He left his property to
be equally devided between "Mr. Chas. Webb for his kindness
to me this present year, and to the poorest man in Lancaster
county." Mentions his brother James Carter, who in 1785 was
the head of a family of five.

87. Thomas 4 Carter (Henry, 3 Henry, 2 ) by his will, probated
February 16, 1824, in Lancaster, left "the land which was my

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father Harry Carter's" to daughters Rebecca and Lucretia, and
the rest of his estate to wife Judith, and after her death to go
to all their children. If none of them had lawful issue it was
to go to the children of Jos. Dale and Robt. D. Palmer, who
probably were the husbands of two of Thos. Carter's sisters —
Betty, Lucretia or Sinah. Thos. and Judith Carter had issue:
Dale, Lucretia, Rebecca, and Harriet, who died in 1866 leaving
what she had to friends and to pale in her grave.

94. George 4 Carter (Josiah, 3 Henry, 2 ) is supposed to have
been the George Carter who married Elizabeth James on Novem-
ber 16, 1780, and was living in Lancaster in 1783 with wife and
one child.

106. Edward 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) had a grant for
340 acres of land in Albemarle (later Amherst) August 19, 1758.
He settled here and seems to have died about i785-'90 without
issue.

107. Henry 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) had a grant in Al-
bemarle (later Amherst) for 114 acres on August 16, 1755, and
in 1761 for seventy acres adjoining in Amherst. Tradition of an-
other branch says that he removed to Montgomery county, and
the Land Office records show that a Henry Carter was granted
in Montgomery 375 acres in 1785, 68 in 1793, and 130 in 1802,
which in 1804 was regr anted to Henry Carter, Jr. In June, 1796,
a Wm. Carter had a grant for 413 acres in Montgomery. Though
the Land Office records give the name in every instance as Carter,
the county records give the name as Carty, and the descendants
are uncertain which it is, though they use that of Carty. The
clerk of Montgomery wrote me as follows: "There is no will
of Henry Carter recorded in this office, and no v r ill of any Carter
prior to 1850. I will send you the will of Henry Carty, which I
think is the one you want, as a very old citizen tells me he re-
members Henry Carter, son of Henry, and he says they were
called Carter. And the Gibsons, Guerrants, and Charletons are
relatives of the man who made the will." Mrs. C. H. King, Dub-
lin, Pulaski county, daughter of Maj. Wm. Gibson Guerrant, and
great-great-granddaughter of Henry Carty or Carter, says : "Now
the name Carty I have often heard contested. It is my belief

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that it was Carter. Among the unlearned mountain people a
name often changes. I know that Henry Carty (or Carter) had
land grants. Further than this I can not tell. I have several
times, when in Richmond, tried to find something of these from
the Land Office, without success, but suppose I looked for the
wrong name, as I was on the track of 'Carty.' " Henry Carty 's
will, probated in June, 1809, * e ft a large estate in land and ne-
groes to wife Frances, son Henry, grandson William, son of Wil-
liam, dec'd, and five daughters — Millian, wife of Roland Jacobs ;
Sarah, wife of John Harrison; Nancy, wife of John Charlton;
Elizabeth, wife of Wm. Gibson, and Peggy, wife of Jos. Rentfro.

108. Job 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) lived in Amherst. Will
probated December 2, 1782. He left a good estate to "my loving
wife" and seven children, as follows: Solomon (had a grant for
land in Amherst in 1793) ; Peter; Dale; Job, Jr., (had a grant
for 290 acres in Amherst in 1789); Elizabeth Dawson; Nancy
Vaughn ; and William, who was the executor.

109. Solomon 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) had a grant for
127 acres in 1767 in Albemarle county, but appeared in the cen-
sus of 1783 in Amherst county as the head of a family of eight
and two servants. One son and one daughter were married be-
fore this date. His will, probated October, 1786, divided a good
estate between his wife Mary Ann and the following children:
William, was the head of a family of three in 1783, was a private
in infantry in the Revolution; Abraham, was granted 856 acres
of land in Amherst between 1788 and 1822; Milla Davis; Peter;
Sallie ; Elisha ; Patty ; and Nancy. Brother Peter and son Abra-
ham executors. Personal estate amounted to £155 4s. od.

no. Peter 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) had grants of land
on Tobacco Row Mt., Amherst county, in 1768 and 1780. In
1783 he was the head of a family of ten and eight servants; and
during the Revolution served as a private in the State artillery.
Between 1760 and 1770 he was married to Mary Anne Ellis,
daughter of Charles and Susannah Harding Ellis, of "Red Hill/'
Amherst county. His will, probated February 7, 1791, gave to
each of his children a negro and seventy-five pounds money. All
land and other estate to wife during her widowhood and good

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management. Josiah Ellis and Wm. Crawford executors. Per-
sonal estate amounted to £849 is. 6d. All children but Charles
and Jesse under age in 1790. Peter Carter had issue as follows:
Charles; Jesse; Peter; Susannah; James; Edward (whose will,
probated in Amherst May 21, 1832, left his estate to following
grandchildren: Garnet, Granville, Mary, Thomas, Powhatan, and
Frances Layne, and Anne Cashwell, wife of James Cashwell) ;
Solomon; Milly; Elizabeth; and John (whose will, probated
July 15, 1833, in Amherst, left estate to wife Creasy, and the fol-
lowing children : Mary N., Martha, Jacob D., Shedrach, Wm. C,
Elizabeth A., Nancy A., Lucy F., Sarah Anne, Peter D.,< Ver-
jane, James R., and Caroline M. Carter).

X. Thomas 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) removed from Fau-
quier to Rye Cove, Clinch River, in what is now Scott county, in
1773, with his first cousins Dale and John Carter, sons of Charles
Carter of Amherst. On March 26, 1774, they all had survers
for land — Thomas for 197 acres in Rye Cove, and on March 31,
1783, he had another survey for 1,420 acres to include his im-
provements. From 1774 till 1784 he was one of the overseers
of the road in Washington county; and when his home fell in
the new county of Russell he was a justice of the first court of
that county, May 9, 1786, and a lieutenant in the militia. In 1788
he represented Russell in the Constitutional Convention of that
year, and is said to have been several times in the Legislature.
His will, probated in Russell October 25, 1803, left a third of all
estate to wife Elizabeth for life, and after her death the slaves
in her portion to go to son Charles, who was to have two-thirds
of the remainder of them and other personal estate. The rest of
the slaves and personal estate to go to daughter Rosamond Dick-
enson. Sons John and Morgan, and daughters Phoeby Jones and
Sarah Taylor had already had their shares. Grandson Thomas
Morgan Carter to have the home place of 1,300 acres. Of the
descendants of Thomas Carter I have but little data. John died
in 1804, leaving freedom to his servants and the rest of his estate
to his sister Sarah. Morgan Carter, who in early life had been
captured by the Indians and held in captivity in western New
York for eighteen months, died in 1813 intestate with wife Ursula

122 William and Mary Quarterly

as administratrix. He is said to have left no issue. Charles Car-
ter may have been the Charles Carter who died in Mason county
in 1816 with son Presley executor — Presley being a family name
in the family of his uncle Joseph Carter. Rosamond Dickenson
is said to have been an ancestress of the late Col. James B. Dick-
enson, of Scott county.

Thomas Morgan Carter, the grandson, was doubtless a son
of an older son of Thomas Carter, who had died prior to his
father. He had a wife Matilda, and died about 1828. He is
said to have left issue a son William, and probably others.

XX. Joseph 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) settled in Rye Cove
near his brother Thomas, but apparently not as early, as his first
survey was on March 1, 1783 for 200 acres. To this he added
320 acres in 1795, and 200 acres more in 1799. The stone over
his grave states that he was seventy-five years of age, so that he
must have been born about 1736, as his will was probated in Rus-
sell, August 1, 1809. (Entire record from tombstone not fur-
nished me.) He left whole estate to wife Elizabeth for life,
after which sons Thomas and Presley to have the home planta-
tion — Presley that part upon which he (Presley) then lived. His
slaves were to go to such of his children as were willing to keep
them in slavery — evidently some of his children had manumis-
sion ideas. Residue of estate to all children equally, none to be
charged with what he had given them previously. He had issue
as follows:

224. Elijah Carter,

225. Presley Carter,

226. Thomas Carter,

227. Anne Carter,

228. Mima Carter,

229. Judith Carter.

Mr. Joseph H. Carter, who died in 1909 in his ninetieth year,
in Scott county, was a son of Presley, and before his death dic-
tated an account of the Carters of Rye Cove to Mr. I. C. Coley,
of Gate City, his grandson-in-law, who has kindly furnished me
with the data contained therein. Joseph Carter, the emigrant to
Rye Cove, was a private in the Revolution before he settled on
Clinch River.

William and Mary Quarterly 123

XXX. Norris 4 Carter (Peter, 8 Thomas, 2 ) was probably the
youngest son of Peter Carter, of Fauquier. He settled near his
brothers Thomas and Joseph in southwest Virginia, but the date
is unknown. In 1793 he had a small grant in Russell county,
and in 1805 purchased a part of a large tract on the north side
of Clinch that had been granted to his cousin, John Cartre, in
1783. September 23, 1804, Norris Carter and wife Agnes" gave
a power of attorney to their son, Henry Carter, to collect certain
debts from Henry Taylor — all of them of Russell. The frequent
appearance of the name Taylor among the descendants of Norri?,
suggests that his wife may have been Agnes Taylor. His will,
probated June 8, 1816, in Scott county, left entire estate to wife
Agnes "for her comfortable maintenance during her life," after
which son Henry was to have the home part of the plantation,
and granddaughter Jemima Carter, eldest daughter of daughter
Molly, to have the part "below the Big Branch. ,, Residue to all
children equally. They were:

230. Henry,

231. Peter,

232. John,

233. Williamson,

234. Dale,

235. Charles Burr,

236. Molly Carter.

XXXX. George 4 Carter (Peter, 3 Thomas, 2 ) remained in
Fauquier county. His will, probated October 29, 1829, left good
estate to seven children. Mentions his children by a second mar-
riage, but does not name them. Personal estate amounted to
$1,988.71, and included ten negroes, good furniture, "a parcel of
books, a Dictionary, Pamphlets, and Becket Explanatory of the
Bible & New Testament." His children were: William, died in
1812; Presley, Martin Everett Carter, Mitty Norris, Anne Gray-
son, Pamelia Carver, Elizabeth Carter, and George. William
Carter's will, probated July 27, 1812, mentions 195 acres of land
he had purchased from his father, George Carter, and left his
estate to his brothers and sisters as follows : Mitty Norris, £250 ;
Elizabeth Carter, £200 ; Melia Carter, £200 ; Anne Grayson, £50 ;

124 William and Mary Quarterly

George Carter, £50; and residue to brothers Presley and Everett
Carter.

in. Dale 4 Carter (Charles, 3 Thomas, 2 ), born August 9,
1744, in Stafford county, was killed by Indians on October 6,
1774, near Blackmore's Fort. About 1772 he removed to the
Clinch River settlements with his brother John and cousin
Thomas, of Fauquier. March 26, 1774, had a survey for 97
acres on Clinch River. Original letters from Major Arthur
Campbell to Colonel Wm. Preston (preserved at the Wisconsin
Historical Society) give an account of his murder as follows :

"Royal Oak, October 12, 1774.

" * * * Yesterday also I had an Express from Clynch,
with the following intelligence. Thursday ye 6th Ins. at Black-
mores one Dale Carter was killed and Scalped within 55 Steps
of the Fort. Mr. Anderson who had a man with him fired at the
Indian as he was Scalping the Man killed, while the other Man
shot another Indian. The Indians fired several shots at Ander-
son and. the other, when they fired off the Bastion at them. The
Indians had like to done Andersons Job, having struck the stock-
ade a few Inches from his Head. Evidently the indians inten-
tions was to make a bold push to enter the Fort as the People
was chiefly all some distance away from the Gate upon Logs, and
the Enemy it seems had silently crept along under the Bank of
the River completely out of view, until poor Carter discovered
them, he immediately commenced hallooing Murder; one Gun
fired and missed — another shot him thro the Thigh, but not Mor-
tal, he could not escape as he was too lame (from the shot) ;
one fellow more bold than the rest soon ran up and tomahaked
and scalped hmvthe remainder of the enemy escaped at the dis-
tance of about 100 yards and fired as mentioned before. * * *
This unlucky affair happened when there were but few men in
the Fort and Capt. Looney happened to be in this settlement &
Lieut. Cox has not got out."

Four days later Maj. Campbell wrote: "There was an ac-
count came h£re last Night that a woman & two children were
killed or taken near Blackmores since the Murder of Carter. But
as it has come thro several hands by way of report I hope it is

William and Mary Quarterly 125

not true; as the people in that Quarter suffer of late a* kind of
Seige and I think Women and children would, not be straggling
out." I have not been able to get any abstracts from the old Fin-
castle county records as to the distribution of Dale Carter's pro-
perty.

117. John 4 Carter (Charles, 3 Thomas, 2 ) on April 1, 1783,
had a survey for 172 acres of land lying on north side of Clinch
River below the mouth of Cane Creek, and on the same day the
county "Com rs certify that Jno. Carter is entitled to 400 acres
adjoining the mouth of Cane Creek on n. side of Clinch River,
92 of which was surveyed Mar. 26, 1774, by virtue of an order
of Council passed 16 Deer 1773 to include his improvements, he
having prooved to the Court that he was entitled to the same by
actual settlement made in the year 1773." When Russell county
was formed John Carter and his brother Charles qualified as
deputy sheriffs on May 9, 1786. A year later his entire family
was murdered by the Indians, and is mentioned by Summers as
follows: "On the 9th day of July 1787 a party of Indians came
to the house of John Carter, on the Clinch, and killed his wife
and six children, and after plundering the house, placed the dead
bodies in the same and burned the whole." His deeds for land
show that he married again, but I have not been able to locate
his will or any descendants. May 26, 1803, John Carter sold 72
acres of his 1783 grant, to Robert Mitchell. No wife mentioned.
February 23, 1805, J onn Carter and wife Margaret sold 100
acres of this grant to Wm. Taylor; and on the same day they
sold another 100 acres to Williamson Carter, son of Norris Carter.

As they do not appear again in the county records, John Carter
and wife may have removed from Russell county after this date.

118. Charles 4 Carter (Charles, 3 Thomas, 2 ) was living in
Washington county in 1781 when his sister, Susannah Carter, de-
vised to him by will three negroes and other property. Two of
the negroes were the ones left to her by their father, Charles
Carter, of Amherst. May 9, 1786, he qualified as deputy sheriff
of Russell county. His home was in the southwestern part of
the county, and fell in the bounds of Lee when that county was
formed in 1792. He became the first clerk of this county and
continued in the office until 1824. From 1793 till 1826 his name

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appears frequently in the deed records of this county, but no will
can be found. He died in 1828, and was buried in the Carter
graveyard in Scott county.

119. William 4 Carter (John, 3 Henry, 2 ) married and set-
tled in Prince William county, where his will was probated Sep-
tember 5, 1794. He had the following children: Mary Deacons;
Catharine Carter, died unmarried in 1819; Daniel Carter, died
in 1839, as shown by inventory of estate; Sarah Lynn; William,
Jr. ; and John Carter, who died in 1 819, as shown by inventory
of estate.

One of the sons of William Carter, Sr., had a son Addison
B. Carter, as in 1829 he sold 272 acres of land in Prince William,
part of which had fallen to him in the division of the estate of
his aunt Catherine Carter. Addison was a baptismal name in the
Joseph Carter family of Lancaster, the Bronaugh family of Ma-
son, and the Kentucky branch of the Thomas Carter family of
Culpeper. Contemporaneous with this William Carter was a
William Carter in Prince William of the Giles Carter family. 1

1 Contemporaneous with Col. John Carter, Col. Edward Carter
and Capt. Thomas Carter, of Lancaster, there was a Giles Carter, cf Hen-
rico, who was a planter of some prominence. He died in 1701 at the age
of 6y years, leaving a wife, Hannah, and children, Susan, wife of Thos.
Williamson ; Mary, wife of Thomas Davis ; and sons, Giles and Theo-
dorick. The latter died in Henrico in 1737, leaving wife, Elizabeth, and
children, Theodorick, John and Mary. Sometime after 1750, a Giles
Carter settled in Pr. William, and evidently was a member of the above
family of Carter. His will prob. Mar. 7, 1785, mentions sons, William,
Samuel, David, Robert; and daughters, Sarah Carter, Mary Dunaway,
Matt Mitchell and Elizabeth Heald. Wm. Carter, Jr., gave bond as tobacco
inspector at Quantico, Feb. 3, 1784, and again in 1799. May 5, 1794,
William Carter and wife, Betty, sold to Jas. Smith a plantation called
"Pope's Hill," purchased by Wm. in 1790, from his brothers, Samuel and
David, to whom it was devised by their father, Giles Carter. Wm. Carter's
will was prpb. in Pr. Wm. Jan. 14, 1810, and names wife, Betty, and
children, Mary Nickerson, John Carter (living in 1830) and Sarah, wife
of Henry Fairfax. Henry Fairfax's will, prob. in 1847, names children,
Elizabeth, Henry, Mary, Sarah Allen, Jane Bbtts and the children of
daughters, Delia and Harriet, whose surnames are not given.

The inventories of the estates of Samuel and David Carter were re-
corded in 1820 and 1815.

William and Mary Quarterly 127

120. Lunsford 4 Carter (John, 3 Henry, 2 ) had a deed from
Birkett and Elenor Davenport, December 21, 1789, for 140 acres
of land in Culpeper, which was sold in 1798 by his widow Eliza-
beth Carter. His inventory was recorded in Culpeper February
20 > x 795- No records to show names of children, if any.

132. John 4 Carter (John, 3 James, 2 ), born in Stafford June
1, 1754, died in the same county in 1791. In March, 1792, Joseph
Reddish, guardian of Wrenn, Robert Hannah, Nancy, Hugh,
and Thomas Carter, "Orphans of John Carter Dec'd," brought
suit against William Edmonds, Executor of their grandfather,
John Carter, Sr. September 17, 1799, Wrenn Carter, of Prince
William county, sold his right to certain personal property, which
he that day brought suit to recover from his brother, Thomas
Carter, who was not a resident of the State. This was two ne-
groes who were "allotted to the sd Thomas Carter as his propor-
tion of our Dec'd father John Carter's estate subject to the sum
of £13 4s. 4d. by the Commissioners appt'd by the Court of Staf-
ford Co. Which sum I have accounted for and pd my father's
other legatees."

142. Mary Anne 4 Carter (Joseph, 3 Joseph, 2 ), eldest child
of Joseph' and Margaret Mason Carter, was born in Stafford, De-
cember 7, 1747, and died at the home of her son, William Bro-
naugh, on the Great Kanawha River in Mason, about i820- , 25.
In 1768 she was married to Dr. John Bronaugh, of Stafford
county. He was born January 15, 1743, and died November 24,
1777, and was probably a cousin of his wife, as his mother was
also a Miss Mason of the Stafford county family. Dr. Bro-
naugh's parents were Colonel Jeremiah Bronaugh, born February
25, 1702', died November 11, 1749, and Simpha Rosa Enfield
Mason, a sister of George Mason, of Gunston Hall, and widow
of John Dinwiddie, brother of Governor Dinwiddie. After the
death of her second husband she removed with her children to
Gunston Hall, where she died in 1762. The will of Dr. John
Bronaugh, of Overwharton Parish, Stafford, was probated in
Fauquier county May 25, 1778. Four children are named in
the will as follows:

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237. Mary Mason Bronaugh, born 1770, married Robert
Hereford.

238. Dr. John Bronaugh, Jr., born 1772, married (I) Rosa
Bronaugh, by whom he had a daughter Emily, who married John
Tyler, of Hickory Grove, Prince William county. He married
(II) a Miss Graham.

239. William Bronaugh, born 1774, died 1859, married (I)
Maria Fitzhugh; (II) Mary Pope Peyton.

240. Margaret Bronaugh, born 1776, was the second wife of
Joseph Hale.

146. Joseph 4 Carter (Joseph, 3 Joseph, 2 ), born in 1762, mar-
ried in June, 1783, Sarah Chilton, who bore him three children
and then died. He married second, Frances Everett, who> had
seven children, all under age in 181 5.

He had inherited a fine estate from his father, and by his will,
probated in Lancaster December 18, 1815, he left it to his wife
Frances Everett Carter, with the request that she educate the
seven younger children in as "liberal manner" as he had the
three older ones, and after her death it was to go equally to all.
Sons Joseph Addison and Warren executors. He had issue xs
follows: Joseph Addison, Warren, Mary, William, Henry, John,
Miller, Robert, Alexander, and Frances.

The will of Mrs. Eliza Chinn Carter, widow of Joseph Addi-
son Carter, was probated in Lancaster November 20, 1843, bv
her son Addison L. Carter. She left all estate to provide for and
educate her three younger children, as the other children had
been better provided for in their father's lifetime. Her daugh-
ter Eugenia prayed the court for an appeal from the will. Names
of other children not shown by the records. The home planta-
tion was called "Nutsworth."

154. John Carter 4 Starke (Tabitha, 3 Joseph, 2 ), born No-
vember 16, 1748, married January 4, 1769, Sarah, daughter of
Captain John and Prudence Thornton Inglish, of Stafford. They
had issue: Mehethlen, Prudence, Charlotte, Thornton, Jeremiah,
Aflexander (born 1780), Tomat, Elizabeth, and John Starke
(born in 1788).

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Alexander Starke, born in Stafford county, Virginia, in 1780,.
died in Sumner county, Tennessee, in 1862. He married Mar-
garet, daughter of John and Frances Coleman Waters, and had
issue: Coleman, John, Henry Carter, Alexander, Mehethlen,
Elizabeth, Sarah, Frances, and Margaret.

John Starke, born in Stafford in 1788, died in Sumner county
in 1862. He married Margaret, daughter of Captain John Prim,.
a soldier at Yorktown in 1781, etc. They had issue: Elizabeth,
Lydia, Joseph Carter, Sarah Anne, Malvina, John Prim, and
Catharine.

Fifth and Later Generations.

160. Lucy 5 Carter (No. 46. Edward 4 ) married, May 19,.
1768, James Kirke, and died prior to 1783, leaving issue: Mary
Kirke, who married Wm. Digges, September 11, 1788; Catha-
rine Kirke, who married Charles Brent in December, 1791 ; and
James Kirke, Jr., under age in 1783.

Regarding the descendants of Captain John Carter, Sr., of
Spotsylvania, and his two wives (Miss Armistead, of Caroline,
and Hannah Chew, daughter of Captain John and Margaret Bev-
erley Chew, of Spotsylvania, and granddaughter of Captain
Harry Beverley), his great-granddaughter by the second mar-
riage, Mrs. J. N .Hook, Clemsen College, S. C, has supplied in-
teresting data from aid letters and an account of the family pre-
pared about 1845 by a grandson of Captain Carter — Hon. Nor-
borne E. Sutton, of Caroline.

Captain Carter's home was near the Spotsylvania-Caroline
line about sixteen miles west of Bowling Green. It is said to
have been a large brick house, and that he lived there in con-
siderable style. In the division of the property after his death
the house and 142 acres of the home plantation fell to the share
of Mrs. Margaret Chew Talliaferro, who was the only one of his
children who removed from Virginia. Her sister, Mrs. Burton
Talliaferro, however rented it instead of building on her own
portion. The old mansion was burned in 1825, and the bricks sold
kter for other purposes. Major Benjamin Alsop, writing in 1827
to Mr. Zachariah Talliaferro, says : "Your place is truly unlucky

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after the mansion house was burnt, Mrs. Lucy Talliaferro re-
paired the Overseers house and liv d in that and a few days be-
fore last Christmas it took fire and was burnt down. She is still
living on tfieland near where the old house stood, has put a
Chimney to the Carriage house & is living in that in a Very un-
comfortable manner/' He continues, "Mrs. Talliaferro talks
very Much of Coming to your Country as soon as she gets her
Matters rounded up." "We have had a very Cold Winter the
coldest we have had for many years and at this time (March,
1827,) our roads are aimost impassible."

In November, 1829, he writes: "Horace Marshall is broke
and sold out. Was in Philadelphia the last I heard of him." (He
was Captain Carter's grandson.) "Mrs. Mary B. Stevens has
become very poore. She is living with her son Lewis at present.
Lucy Stevins is with Mrs. L. Taliaferro." * * * "Capt.
Stanard is still here, but in bad health." In January, 1830, he
wrote : "With respect to your Old Acquaintances I will Endeavor
to give you some Account. Larkin Stanard is still living — he
has a sore leg, which keeps him Confin d . Henry C. Coleman is
living in Caroline, Wm. & Zach. T. Wilson has been dead several
years, the children of Wm. Taliaferro are all living but the old-
est son Walker he has been dead sometime; the daughters all
Married. Some doing pretty well & some badly. One of the
daughters is dead and left 2 or 3 children. Your old friend
James Carter is still living and well the last I heard of him.
Capt. Jones & his wife are dead & the land sold and the children
Squandered off. Col°. Coleman's widow & her Children has
moved to Kentucky, we have lately heard her oldest Son is dead.
So goes the World some Coming in Others Going Out." Other
letters show that Mrs. Hannah Carter died in 1821, leaving a
personal estate valued at about $7,000.00 ; and that her son Rob-
ert and daughter Elizabeth died prior to 1827 unmarried.

166. William 5 Carter (No. 49. John 4 ) married Frances
Curtis, daughter of Rice Curtis, Sr., "Gent." of Spotsylvania,
prior to November. 20, 1761, as on that date he had a deed from
Rice Curtis, Jr., that shows this marriage. Wm. Carter appeared
in a list of Spotsylvania slave owners in 1783 as owner of ten

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servants. His will, probated in Spotsylvania November 26, 1802,
mentions his wife Frances Carter, daughters Lucy Aylett, Eliza-
beth Belinda, Sarah wife of Edmund Foster, Frances wife of
Rice Connor ; sons Rice, John and John's daughter Polly, Guil-
ford D., Kenyon, and Abraham ; stepmother Hannah Carter ; and
half sister Elizabeth Carter. He also had a daughter who mar-
ried James Hume, as September 15, 1794, Wm. Carter made a
deed of gift to James Hume for four negroes in trust for Wm.
Lewis Hume, son of the said James and grandson of the said
Wm. Carter. September 1, 1789, he made a deed of gift to his
son John for 216 acres of land in Berkeley Parish.

In 1788 John Carter was married to Mary Herndon, born
May 4, 1770, and still living in 1834. John Carter's will, pro-
bated in Spotsylvania October 2, 181 5, mentions wife, daughter
'" Polly" and sons Joseph, John, and James. Friend John W.
Herndon executor. Polly Carter married, September 24, 1830,
Captain Thomas M. Horn. Mary Herndon Carter was a daugh-
ter of Joseph Herndon, of "Mattaponi," Spotsylvania, and his
second wife Mary Minor, whom he married August 15, 1765.
She was a daughter of John and Sarah Scott Minor, and was
born March 7, 1741, and died October 26, 1822. Joseph Hern-
don, born May 1, 1737, died October 28, 1810, lived on a beau-
tiful estate about six miles southeast of Fredericksburg. He was
a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, and took a prominent
part in the political life of his county. For further notice of the
Herndons see the Virginia Historical Magazine, Vols. IX., X.,
and XL

167. John 5 Carter (49. John 4 ) was commissioned cap-
tain in the Spotsylvania Militia September 18, 1777. Owned
nine servants in 1783 before his father's death. May 1, 1794,
Captain John Carter and wife Mary and sister Margaret Mar-
shall, widow ,deeded twenty-eight acres of land formerly belong-
ing to their father, John Carter, Sr., to Dr. Robert Wellford.
He died in Spotsylvania about 1812, but I have no copy of his
will.

168. Frances 5 Carter (49. John) married Rice Curtis, III.,
a son of Rice Curtis, Jr. (will probated 1774), who was a son of

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Rice Curtis, Sr. (will probated 1753), and his wife Elizabeth..
August 27, 1779, Rice Curtis made a deed to his children named
as follows: Nancy, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Frances Margaret,.
George Bartemeus, and James. Mentions wife Frances Carter
Curtis. No further data.

170. Anne 5 Carter (49. John) married Wm. Heslop and
had a son Horace, and possibly other children.

172. Sarah 5 Carter (49. John) married William Sutton, of
Caroline county, and had the following issue:

1. Bettie, married a Mr. Chapman, and had issue — James,,
Reuben, Robert, Martha, and Lucy.

2. Sarah Darly Sutton, married Robert Lewis, son of Dr.
John Lewis, of Spotsylvania, and brother of Waller, and Drs.
John, Jr., and Zachariah Lewis, and had issue — Cadwalader,
Sarah married Armistead O. Sutton, and Jane married Au-
gustus Grymes.

3. John Carter Sutton, of "Pine Forest," on the Mattaponi.
He was married twice. First, to his first cousin, Maria Chew
Sutton, who left one son, John Oliver Sutton ; second, Elizabeth
Page Pendleton, only child of Edmund Pendleton, of "Edmund-
ton/' and his first wife Jane Burwell Page, daughter of John
Byrd Page, whom he married in 1794. This Edmund Pendleton
was a favorite grandnephew of Judge Edmund Pendleton, and
was a son of Edmund Pendleton, of "White Plains/' Caroline
county, and his wife Mildred Pollard. Edmund Pendleton, Sr.,
was the eldest son of Hon. John Pendleton, and greatgrandson
of Philip Pendleton, Gentleman, who came to Virginia about
1674. For further data of the Pendletons see Green's reprint of
Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish. John C. and Eliza-
beth P. Sutton had issue — Edmund Pendleton, William Carter,
Hugh Carter, Norborne E., John Carter, Robert W., Patrick H.,
Sarah Jane, Lucy Carter, Anne Lewis, and Betty Burwell.

4. Norborne E. Sutton, an attorney-at-law. In 1834 was post-
master at Bowling Green, and in 1845 was a member of the Vir-
ginia Senate. He married Dorothea Washington, born in 1809,
died in 1844. Late in life N. E. Sutton removed to Texas, where

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he died. About 1845 he prepared a brief account of the descend-
ants of his greatgrandfather, John Carter, in some of the
branches of the family, from which the data here given is mainly
taken. He mentioned no children of his own. He stated that
his greatgrandfather, John Carter, was an officer in the Revolu-
tion, and gave it on the authority of family tradition and the
word of an officer who told him that he had served with him.
5. Lucy Sutton, married Benjamin Marshall.

173. Mary Beverley 5 Carter (49. John) married Captain
Richard Stevens, of Spotsylvania, and had issue — Lucy, Lewis,
Robert, Hiram, Richard, Horace, Polly, and Judith. All mar-
ried but the two younger sons, but I have no data of their de-
scendants.

174. Margaret Chew 5 Carter (49. John), born January 14,
1771, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, died May 19,^1822, at her home,
"Mt. Jolly," three miles from Pendleton, South Carolina. July
31, 1802, she was married to Zachariah Taliaferro, an old bache-
lor lawyer of South Carolina. He was born in Caroline county,
Va., April 28, 1759, an d died in South Carolina April 14, 1831.
He was a son of Zachariah Taliaferro, Sr., and his wife Mary
Boutwell, who removed from Caroline county to Amherst about
1770, where he owned large tracts of land. In i775-'76 he was
a member of the Amherst Committee of Safety, and it is said
was a soldier n the Revolution. Zachariah, Jr., was a soldier in
the Revolution, and after the war studied law and removed in
1786 to Pendleton District, South Carolina, where he was a
prominent planter and lawyer for the rest of his life. He has
heen described as "a man six feet tall, weighing over two hun-
dred pounds, blue eyes, black hair, and face clean shaven. He
was a man of good understanding, equable temper, liberal to the
poor, and a most humane master." One summer, when about
the age of forty, he was visiting relatives in Virginia, and when
preparing to return to South Carolina, was persuaded by a friend
to remain a day longer and attend a ball at Fredericksburg the
next night. That night he dreamed that he attended the ball, and
on entering the room he saw a beautiful young lady standing at

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the head of the room tying her slipper. The night of the ball,
as he entered the room his vision was singularly verified. Re-
membering his dream, he sought an introduction, and later the
young lady — Margaret Chew Carter — became his bride.

The Taliaferro arms, as used by this gentleman, are described
as: "A hand and arm holding a dagger cutting a bar of iron.
The motto, Fortis et firmis" Zachariah and Margaret Chew
Carter Taliaferro had issue: Sarah Anne, born June 2, 1803, died
August 12, 1888; Lucy Hannah, born May 5, 1806, died August
J 7> !875; Mary Margaret, born May 5, 1808, died June 4, 1896;
Caroline Virginia, born November 5, 181 1, died May 14, 1877;
John Zachariah, born November 22, 1810, died in infancy; and
Zachariah, born November 5, 1813, died in childhood.

Sarah Anne Taliaferro married, March 20, 1823, Dr. O. R.
Broyles, of "Ashtabula," Pendleton, S. C. They had issue: I.
Augustus Taliaferro Broyles, born 1824, died 1904. He was a
graduate of South Carolina College, a lawyer, and a captain in
the Confederate army. II. Charles Edward, was also a lawyer,
a colonel of a Georgia regiment in the Confederate army, and a
member of the Georgia Legislature. He married Lucy Johnson,
and had issue — 1, Laura, married Dr. Mlagne Boyd; 2, Sarah,
married Dr. Arthur Boyd ; 3, Charles, Jr. ; 4, Frank ; 5, Robert ;
and 6, Price. III. William Henry, who was a private in the Con-
federate army, married Rebecca Taliaferro and settled in Ala-
bama. IV. Margaret, married Dr. Sam. Van Wyeth, of New
York City, and had issue — 1, William, d. s. p.; 2', Samuel M.,
married Nierce Harrison, and had Maraich, Margaret May,
Dolly, and Sally Anne ; 3, Oze Broyles, married Elizabeth Keith,
and had Lydia, married John Shuford; Overman settled in
Texas ; O. B., Jr., and Elizabeth. V. Robert, private in C. S. A.,
married Ella Keith, of Charleston, S. C, and had Roberta, Avena,
Sarah, Ferro, and Robert — none of whom married. VI. Sarah
married Wm. D. Williams, of Tennessee, and had issue — Alex-
ander, Wm. D,, Jr., Lucien, John, Margaret, and Marie — none
of whom married. VII. Thomas, C. S. A., married (1) Mary
Raeney and settled in Tennessee; (2) Bettie Harrison, of South
Carolina. VIII. John Pendleton, C. S. A., married Bettie Hub-
bard.

i. "Oakland," Pittsylvania Co., Jesse Carter, 1783.

2. "Greenrock/' Pittsylvania Co., Thomas Carter, 1784.

3. "Broadfield," Spotsylvania Co., James Davis, 1740.

4. Said to be old Thomas Carter Home, Lancaster Co. Probably is

the remains of "corotoman."

5. Rear view of "Greenrock" House.

6. Said to be old servants quarters of Joseph Carter, Gent., Lancas-

ter. Va.

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Lucy Hannah Taliaferro married, in September, 1826, Col.
David Sloan Taylor, a wealthy planter of Anderson county, South
Carolina. He was born in 1806, and died of apoplexy March 20,
1867. They had issue: I. Zachariah, C, S. A., married Mary
Meriwether, and had issue — 1, Mary Rosa, married Dr. Ampert;
2, Zachariah, Jr, ; 3, David; 4, William; 5, James; and 6, Ger-
trude, married Price M. Benson. II. Rosa married Dr. D. D.
Bacot, a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent
families of South Carolina. He was graduated from the Franklin
College at Atlanta, Ga., in 1846, and of the Charleston Medical
College in 1848. A member of the Phi Kappa Society, and an
officer in the old Bank of Charleston. He practiced medicine at
Orangeburg, S. C, and later in Piedmont. Died in Pendleton
in 1862. They had issue — 1, D. Taylor, married Florence Nor-
ton, and had Norborne, Florence married a Mr. Reed of Vir-
ginia, George, and Rachel married Campbell Simons another of
the most prominent families of South Carolina; 2, Laura, mar-
ried Paul Jenkins, and had Ada married John Simons, brother
of Campbell, Paul, Daniel, and Rosamond; 3, Zach., d. s. p.; 4,
Taliaferro, d. s. p. Ill, Joseph Taylor, C. S. A., married Ellen
King, of Charleston, and had issue — 1, Eleneta, married Wm.
H. Heyward; 2, Lucia, married Moultrie Clement; 3, Pauline;
4, Taliaferro; and 5, Hugh; all of Charleston. IV. Lucy mar-
ried Edward R. Belcher, and had Robert, married a Miss Ligon.
V. Susan married Edward L. Parker, of Charleston, and had
Sue, who married Cuthbert Fripps, and had Edward Parker and
Marion. VI. Samuel died in the Confederate army at the age
of nineteen. VII. David, C. S .A., married Bessie Rucker, #hd
had issue — 1, John Ligon; 2, Lucia, married Mr. Hudgins; 3,
Eubank; 4, Rucker; and 5, Frank. VIII. William, d. s. p. IX.
Meriwether married Mary DeSanssure Bacot, born December,
1848, daughter of Richard Hutson and Mary Louise Cuthbert
Bacot. Her father was a graduate of West Point, and after
serving several years in the army, resigned and retired to a large
plantation near Beaufort, S. C. They had issue — Ernest, De-
Sanssure, and Louise. X. Carter, d. s. p. XL Edward W. mar-
ried Anne Cuthbert Bacot, born in September, 1858, a sister of

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Meriwether Taylor's wife. They had issue — David, who mar-
ried Pauline Newall, of Georgia.

Mary Margaret Taliaferro married, December 27, 1836, Maj.
R. F. Simpson, of Laurens county, South Carolina. He was
born in 1798, and died at the old Taliaferro home near Pendle-
ton, October 29, 1882. He was a major in the Seminole War,
i835~'42; a member of both houses of the South Carolina Leg-
islature at various times; a member of Congress in 1845 anc *
other years ; a member of the South Carolina Secession Conven-
tion, and at another time was a candidate for Governor of South
Carolina, when the Governors of that State were elected by the
Legislature. He lost it by one vote. He was a graduate of the
South Carolina College, and a planter. They had issue : I, Tal-
iaferro, killed in the Confederate army at Chicamauga. II«
Richard W., a private in the Confederate army, a lawyer, and a
member of the famous "Wallace House" that redeemed South
Carolina from negro rule in 1876. For many years Col. Simp-
son was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Clemsen College,
South Carolina. He married Maria Garlington, and had issue —
1, Margaret, married Dr. W. W. Watkins; 2, Susan, married P.
H. E. Sloan, and had Paul, Louise, Ella, Jean, Lela, Margaret,
Mary R., and Susan; 3, Louis; 4, Anne, married A. G. Holmes,
and had Alester and Louise ; 5, Connie, married Prof. S, M. Mar-
tin, and had Mauer, Richard, and Ben ; 6, Jennie, married A. W.
Klugh, and had Williston and Louise; 7, Richard; 8, John, mar-
ried Lucy Jones, and had John Garlington; and 9, Taliaferro,
married C. Bradfield, and had Taliaferro, Jr. III. Mary Simp-
son, married Thomas L. Williams, of Tennessee. IV. Anne T.,
died young. V. John G., died young.

Caroline Virginia Taliaferro married, May 1, 1844, Dr. H.
G. Miller, of Abbeville county, South Carolina. He was born in
1820, and died March 21, 1899, at his home, "Vallambrosia,"
near Pendleton, South Carolina. They had issue: I. Harry C,
killed in battle at Strasburg, Va., August 2, 1863, aged twenty-
four years. II. Resica Elizabeth, married John N. Hook, of
Clemsen College, South Carolina; no issue. III. Caroline, mar-
ried Wm. W. Simons. IV. Wm. George, married Edith E.
Walker, and had issue — 1, Harry, married Lillian Hallwood, and

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had Dorothea, Harry and Ben; 2, Percy, married Marian Mars-
ton, and had a son Marston; 3, Maud; 4, Mattie, married Harry
Scharfe, and had Harry and Martha; 5, Edith; 6, Beatrice; 7,
Campbell ; 8, Sue Pickens ; and 9, Caroline, married E. H. Mor-
ton, and had Harry and Ben. V. Taliaferro Millier, no issue.

175. Judith 5 Carter (49. John), born in 1773, died in 1827
in Caroline county. She married Joseph Sutton, a Caroline
farmer, and had issue:

I. Maria Chew, who married her cousin, John Carter Sutton,
of "Pine Forest," on the Mattaponi, and died leaving one son,
John Oliver.

II. Dr .Stephen Sutton, who married Eliza Oliver, and had
issue — 1, Armistead O. Sutton, who married his cousin, Sarah
Lewis ; 2, David, married a Miss Noland ; 3, Pulaski, d. s. p. ;
4, Elvira ; 5, Stephen, d. s. p. ; 6, Mary Eliza.

III. Robert Carter Sutton, married Catharine Washington,
and had issue — 1, John Orsville, married Martha Chapman, and
had Charles, Logan, James, Maria Chew, and Judith ; 2, Susan ;
3, Maria; 4, Judith Anne, married a Mr. Shepperd; 5, Henry;
6, Robert ; 7, Oscar ; 8, Edward.

177. Lucy 5 Carter (49. John), born in 1775, died in 1831
"of a fit." She was the second wife of Burton Taliaferro, and
had no issue.

RECORDS FROM THE FAMILY BIBLE OF RICHARD
CHAPMAN, Jr., OF NEW KENT COUNTY, VA.

Communicated by Mrs. Calvin Perkins, Memphis, Tenn.

Richard Chapman, son of Richard Chapman and his wife,
Jane Johnson, was born at "Chericoke, King William Co., Va.,
Sept., 1 741.

Elizabeth Reynolds was born at "The Island/' in New Kent,
Febry. 18th, 1757.

Elizabeth Reynolds and Richard Chapman were married by
the Rev. Mr. Ford, Sunday, April 16th, 1775.

Jane Chapman, their daughter, was born at "Prior Park"
Thursday, February 29th, 1776.

Col. Thomas Carter, 1847.